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Walworth market report SE17, London
The SE17 (Walworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,865 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SE17 (London) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SE17 (London) came in at £505,000, out of 72 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £551,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,670 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,865 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district SE17 covering Walworth, Newington sits in London. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SE17 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in SE17
The SE17 median stands at £505,000 for 2026, built from 72 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £551,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SE17
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SE17 sales average about £7,670 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SE17 77% above the national figure.
A typical SE17 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £505,000 | £505,000 | 72 |
| 2025 | £470,000 | £481,239 | 218 |
| 2024 | £617,000 | £655,998 | 348 |
| 2023 | £475,000 | £521,909 | 229 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 235 |
| 2021 | £500,000 | £633,065 | 248 |
| 2020 | £587,100 | £761,774 | 212 |
| 2019 | £591,200 | £774,922 | 518 |
| 2018 | £536,000 | £714,498 | 324 |
| 2017 | £505,000 | £688,769 | 435 |
| 2016 | £475,000 | £664,530 | 215 |
| 2015 | £415,000 | £586,395 | 390 |
| 2014 | £330,500 | £468,872 | 245 |
| 2013 | £295,000 | £424,476 | 318 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 171 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 190 |
| 2010 | £242,500 | £380,302 | 196 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 123 |
| 2008 | £238,200 | £390,460 | 178 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 372 |
| 2006 | £217,500 | £377,552 | 337 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 254 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 251 |
| 2003 | £169,800 | £312,813 | 232 |
| 2002 | £152,000 | £285,987 | 245 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 236 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 190 |
| 1999 | £87,200 | £173,785 | 254 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 221 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 175 |
| 1996 | £57,000 | £120,210 | 131 |
| 1995 | £50,200 | £109,127 | 102 |
In cash terms the typical SE17 home went from £50,200 in 1995 to £505,000 in 2026, roughly 10 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 363%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SE17 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+37.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−23.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 80% of the typed total. In 1998, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £129,000 against £65,000 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, SE17
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £129,000 (1998) | – | 7 |
| Semi-detached | £332,500 (2010) | – | 116 |
| Terraced | £855,500 | 14 | 1,408 |
| Flats | £440,000 | 58 | 6,274 |
What SE17 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.4% | +4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.6% | −2.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 164 SE17 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 220 sales a year recently, against 265 a year before 2008. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around SE17
For renting purposes SE17 sits in Southwark. The ONS average private rent there is £2,394 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,814 a month for a typical one-bed to £3,491 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Southwark
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £505,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,394 a month (£28,728 a year) works out at a 5.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What kind of market SE17 is
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
SE17 (Walworth): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SE17 (Walworth)?
Are property prices falling in SE17 (Walworth)?
Is SE17 (Walworth) a good place to buy a house?
Will SE17 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in SE17 today
Everything above is what homes in SE17 sold for. The live side of the market holds 39 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the SE17 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SE17 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in SE
Real sold prices by size across the SE area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £516,250 | £795,000 (+54%) | £1,325,000 (+67%) | £2,025,000 (+53%) |
| Semi-detached | £375,000 | £480,000 (+28%) | £613,025 (+28%) | £870,000 (+42%) | £1,390,000 (+60%) |
| Terraced | £405,000 | £475,000 (+17%) | £630,000 (+33%) | £878,697 (+39%) | £1,275,000 (+45%) |
| Flat | £345,000 | £465,000 (+35%) | £645,000 (+39%) | £885,000 (+37%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SE17 ranks 15 of 28 in the SE area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
SE area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SE17, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SE17 1 | £575,000 | 33 |
| SE17 2 | £435,500 | 16 |
| SE17 3 | £553,000 | 23 |
How SE17 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SE area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SE24 | £648,200 | -6% |
| SE22 | £620,000 | -3% |
| SE21 | £608,500 | -10% |
| SE4 | £562,500 | +0% |
| SE1 | £550,000 | -21% |
| SE27 | £550,000 | +5% |
| SE3 | £520,000 | +3% |
| SE15 | £520,000 | -2% |
| SE10 | £507,500 | -14% |
| SE7 | £505,000 | +4% |
| SE17 (this report) | £505,000 | +1% |
| SE26 | £500,000 | +9% |
| SE23 | £498,900 | +4% |
| SE5 | £487,500 | +4% |
| SE11 | £475,000 | -15% |
| SE9 | £472,800 | +6% |
| SE12 | £460,000 | +2% |
| SE6 | £450,000 | +3% |
| SE16 | £450,000 | -3% |
| SE14 | £446,200 | -6% |
| SE19 | £441,500 | -2% |
| SE13 | £435,000 | +1% |
| SE2 | £425,000 | +14% |
| SE18 | £415,000 | +2% |
Before you sell in SE17: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SE17, open the average prices map and zoom from the SE17 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SE17 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.